Wake Up Call - Now or Never!

Chennai is facing the biggest flood of the century now. All roads have converted into canals, houses are converting into ponds and ponds are becoming over flooded pools. So many people have lost their life, many people are still missing, many are relocated. Totally mess up in the area. And top of that, no news of such mess from rural area of Tamilnandu. 

We all are know what happened there. But dont know, how it happened?? why it happened? who is responsible for such massive disaster?? 

India is facing regular disaster since many years. 2012 Uttarkashi Flood, 2013 Kedarnath Flood, 2014, Kashmir Flood, 2015 Chennai Flood. All disasters has a common issue - ISSUE IN WATER RELEASE CHANNELS!

What happened in Kedarnath! Excessive rain fall happened and rive Mandakini could not absorb the entire water into its existing river bed because of the encroachment on its river bed. Similar thing happened in Kashmir where river Jhelam was encroached for so called development and water could not get way to get release. The same kind of thing happened in Chennai. The excessive rain fall converted into huge water which could not get release due to encroachment into various ponds, Adyar river. And water entered into the town. 

We have played a lot with our water bodies in every part of country. See the situation of River Bindaal and Rispana in Dehradun, River Sonali in Roorkee, Hindon in Ghaziabad,Yamuna in Delhi/Noida etc. List is so long. You can find the river bed of any river in any part of the country. You will find such rivers every where. Even small ponds in small towns, villages are washing away on regular basis. See their diameters now and check 50 years ago's too. Every where the situation is same. 

We need to see where our development goals are carrying us? Where we want to see ourselves 50 years down the lines from now? Will be comfortable to use MNC's agenda of air purifier, water purifier (already using), tension purifier etc or we want to live natural organic life?? These are the regular Wake Up Calls from Nature. This is the high time to introspect ourselves. Otherwise be ready to face more Chennai, Mumbai, Kashmir, Kedarnath in your own town.

An Emerging Challenge Created By Human: Call For Action!

Pollution is becoming the bigger problem in the world now which is the direct impact of the years long human intervention for DEVELOPMENT! We have seen Delhi fog and Beijing fog in last weeks. 

Many new ideas are coming from various Governments, Organization, International Agencies, People to reduce the effect of such human created pollution. I must congratulate to these for this concern. If they would have taken the timely action, it would not be the situations anywhere!

Last week, Delhi State Government took the decision that the EVEN & ODD number's private cars will have the roster. The only even and only odd cars will run 3 days in week on Delhi's road. It might be a good decision. But my concern is bigger than that!

If the government is really concern, they should consider the various dynamics of this. They should consider that private cars and jeeps contribute less than 10% of particulate matter (PM: which is the parameter of pollution control). Road dust and construction dust are the biggest contributors - up to 46%. (Researched by IIT Kanpur)

A big contributor to Delhi's air pollution is road dust that accounts for about 35% of tiny particles, followed by vehicles. 

The other big contributors include domestic cooking, power plants and industries. Vehicle emissions account for an average of 25%. Trucks and two-wheelers account for larger chunks of PM 2.5 pollution than passenger cars' contribution of 14-15% to overall vehicle emissions. 

Along with that, if we implement the even and odd roster, are we ready to work upon it properly. Have we taken the proper steps such as, strengthen the public transport system, proper coordination with all concern authorities, Various legal concern etc before implementing it? Will it increase the need of more vehicle in city or can ripple into malpractices (as duplicate number plates)? 

When we are really concern for this particular cause, we need to be very careful in every action, otherwise people make it mockery and the seriousness of the cause goes out. It hampers to the other serious small actions and its sustainability. 

This is the biggest concern emerging into the world. If this will not dealt with proper willingness, it will the biggest disaster of the world. And we need to be ready more Delhi, Beijing, Chennai for future.